"Botan why are you inviting Kuwabara here?" Yusuke whined seriously thinking about blocking the door with a heavy object. "You know he's going to get in some petty argument with me and I'll end up kicking his butt. Beside he's going to hit on you again you know." She threw him a glare before beginning her pacing once more.
"Listen Yusuke, Koenma said this was very serious and we needed to have Kuwabara and maybe even Hiei and Kurama here. I just wish he would have told me a bit more," she muttered. There was a loud and grating knock at the door. Botan shot over smiling, "Good. That should be him. Be nice Yusuke."
The door swung open and Kuwabara stood casually with a big grin on his face. "Hey there Botan! You called me over, so where's Uremeshi?" Yusuke waved from his seat on the couch and Kuwabara went to join him. Botan was about to close the door when another voice called out.
"Not so fast Botan." She spun around seeing Hiei and Kurama waiting patiently at the door. "Our ugly friend was too stupid to see that we were following him almost the whole way." Yusuke easily threw Kuwabara back down on the couch when he tried to tackle the shorter and more dangerous demon. "What is this all about Detective?"
"That means hello to everyone," Kurama chuckled before taking a seat. Hiei took a seat as well letting Botan explain the situation for everyone.
"We should be getting a call from Koenma any time now," she cheered. At that moment the TV on the other side of the room flicked on and Koenma appeared on the screen sitting behind his desk. "Speak of the demon."
The replacement boy in charge of Spirit World cleared his throat. "Greetings everyone. There's big news buzzing here in Spirit World. Part of it is there's a very deadly demon that has escaped into your area Yusuke."
"Isn't there always," he muttered slumping in his seat.
"This time around, we have more than just a pair of convicted demons to help you out. One of my other contacts in the Spirit World has one of their own Spirit Detectives who's been tracking this demon for quite some time now."
"You mean there's going to be another annoying human giving orders?" Hiei grumbled. Kurama and everyone else in the room just sighed.
Koenma kept going, ignoring his snide comment. "They should be arriving at the airport today. I want Botan and Yusuke to pick them up. Another problem is that we don't know whether or not they have an assistant, so they might not be a very easy to work with or they might be so new at this that they don't have a clue as to what they are doing." Everyone in the room was in agreement now: this was not a good thing.
Kurama was the first to offer some type of comfort in the situation, "Perhaps together the six of us might be able to learn something from each other. Wisdom is a powerful weapon against demons." Hiei, Yusuke, and Botan agreed thinking it over. Kuwabara on the other hand, was his rash self.
"Are you kidding me? This person is probably dumber than I am!" he argued starting to get up.
"I find that hard to believe," Hiei and Yusuke snickered.
"Excuse me!" Koenma shouted from the screen. "Can we get back to business please? Their boss is probably going to get them an assistant while they're here. Now you all be nice to them, because I really don't need inter-district Spirit World complications over here. Good luck." The screen flicked off leaving the group to think over things; like for example, what would it be like having two detectives?
"We don't know what they look like, we don't know if we speak the same language, we don't know anything!" Yusuke snapped as Botan dragged him around the airport, "We especially don't even know their flight number! That would help!"
Rolling her eyes, Botan continued to search the airport when someone called out to the pair. "Excuse me? Are you Botan and Yusuke?" They turned around spotting a girl with dark green almost black pigtails and a duffel bag walking over to them. They could only nod dumbly, "Oh great! I'm Ace."
"You're the Detective?" Yusuke stammered. The girl was dressed a bit oddly, so that could only add to his shock; a pair of baggy khakis, a black tube top, and a denim car shop shirt over it that was about as baggy as the pants. She nodded looking confused, so Botan jabbed Yusuke in the stomach. "Hi," he groaned doubling over.
"Hello I'm Botan, Yusuke's assistant," Botan greeted cheerfully. She shook her free hand with both of hers laughing. "I'm so glad to see another girl around here, usually I'm just stuck with the four boys."
"Four?" Ace asked curiously. Botan began leading her out of the airport with Yusuke trailing behind slightly.
Botan only giggled, "Oh yes, you'll have to meet them. They're usually very nice, but you'll have to watch out for a few of them. Well come on Yusuke, let's get going. There's a lot of work to be done."
"I have a feeling this might not end well," Yusuke thought as he sighed going to catch up with the two girls.
"So will they be arriving soon Hiei?" Kurama asked as they sat down for a snack. Kuwabara was trying to sit as far from Hiei as possible as he wolfed down his snack.
Hiei sighed resting his head in his hands, "I have no idea. Why should you and I even bother with this Kurama? This has nothing to do with us, I say we go home." He rose from his seat heading for the door.
"Go on Hiei," Kurama sighed. "Nobody is stopping you. If we need you I will bring you back here." Kuwabara just stared at the two demons, and neither one of them seemed to notice his slack jawed shock. Hiei nodded and quickly disappeared from view running out the door. "Kuwabara would you call me when they arrive? I want to walk around the terrace for a while." He nodded dumbly in answer and just watched him walk out after Hiei.
"I wonder what their problem is," he muttered to himself. Only moments alter the door opened again, but this time it was Botan, Yusuke, and another girl on the other side. "Uh, hey Uremeshi weren't you supposed to bring the Detective back?"
The mysterious girl glared at him looking ready to pummel him on the spot. Yusuke just sighed a put a hand on her shoulder, "This is Kuwabara. Kuwabara, meet Ace: the new Spirit Detective. I suggest you be nice, otherwise she'll probably kick your butt easier than I can." Yusuke laughed as Kuwabara jumped up turning a few shades of red that matched his hair color.
"So this is the idiot that helped defeat one of the Four Saint Beasts?" Ace asked coming inside. "I don't believe it," she scoffed. She swung her duffel higher up on her shoulder scowling at the boy.
"Oh yeah?" Kuwabara shouted getting in her face. "And what have you done huh? I haven't exactly heard of any world crises that were abruptly stopped!" Those who knew him well stared in a bit of shock, for the use of such vocabulary.
Ace looked away crossing her arms, "That's probably because I was able to stop them from getting too widespread. Meaning," she growled flicking his forehead, "I worked fast enough to stop them!"
"Please!" Botan shouted getting in between them before any damage was done. "I think we should at least try and get settled in before attempting to kill each other." Kuwabara and Ace gave one last glare at each other before both shook hands in a truce. Botan sighed with relief, "Thank goodness that's over with. But where's Yusuke?"
The three started looking through the house searching for him; they finally found him when they heard him cursing from the kitchen. "Why doesn't anything in this house like me?" he whined as the three came in.
"What are you doing Uremeshi?" Kuwabara asked rubbing his head.
"Attempting to get something to eat. You, Hiei, and Kurama already got to eat while we were gone." Yusuke sighed slumping into a chair at the table.
Ace set her bag at the bottom of the table, "I'll cook something. If you don't mind that is." Yusuke grinned at the prospect of home cooked meals and nodded happily, "Ok then. I'll be done in a jif." She flitted around the room pulling things from the fridge and cupboard and throwing it all together expertly. Not even half an hour later she had whipped up a simple beef stir-fry for her new pals. "Eat up gang, just one warning-"
"HOT, HOT, HOT!!!" Yusuke and Kuwabara cursed fanning their mouths. Botan and Ace rolled their eyes at the silly boys. As they ate Ace and the boys exchanged stories of fights and cases comparing the levels of danger and their equally estranged reputations at their schools. Kuwabura couldn't help thinking to himself, "Wasn't there something I was supposed to do when they got here? Oh well, I'll think of it later. Besides it's more fun watching Ace, she is kind of cute."
They laughed and talk for a while, when suddenly Ace stood up holding up a hand. She started looking out the windows concentrating on something. "What are you doing?" Botan whispered as Ace slowly crept around the room. She would gently turn her head, taking in all the details, and Yusuke made motions around his head saying she was nuts.
"There's something very wrong here," she whispered seriously. Yusuke and Botan automatically got into defensive stances following her. Kuwabara watched dumbly, but finally got up to follow. "I can sense it, like it's right there. Something animalistic, probably a demon. Just in the next room." Botan and the boys looked at each other all thinking the same thing; was Kurama still in the house? Ace slowly stalked into the opening of the living room peering around it with a trained eye. She signaled for the others to stay behind as she made her way farther into the room.
"Kuwabara?" Botan asked barely talking above a whisper. "Where did Kurama and Hiei go?"
He gulped in response finally remembering what he was supposed to do. "Uh oh." Botan had to hold Yusuke back at his rage. Ace was standing still and unmoving in the middle of the room waiting, but she didn't see Kurama come in behind her. She couldn't hear him either, so quiet were his footsteps in the carpeted apartment. When he almost reached her she snapped; her foot whipped around aiming for a chest high kick, but Kurama just grabbed her ankle stopping her cold. "Whoa."